Question

Kyra was building a bed for her dollhouse. She used her bed, which is 4 feet × 5 feet, as a guide. She scaled down the dimensions of her bed by a factor 1 over 5. What are the dimensions of the model bed she built?

Answer 1

Scale 1:5 means, that the bed is 5 times shorter than real bed. So you have to just divide by 5 dimensions of the real bed. You get

4/5 feet x 5/5 feet

0.8 feet x 1 foot <- dimensions of the model bed